How to Use balloonist in a Sentence

balloonist

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  • There was no damage to the school or any of the homes the balloonist flew over.
    — CBS News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Guertin is one of about 20 hot-air balloonists expected to attend the event.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The two 'Theory of Everything' alums are in talks to star as 19th century hot air balloonists.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2017
  • Uber balloonists will then be picked up in an UberX, driven to the festival, and dropped off with Rainbow Ryders, the area's most famous hot air balloon service, to head up in the air.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2017
  • There are racquetball and handball players, even a hot air balloonist.
    — Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • A high-altitude balloonist takes pictures from near space.
    — Wired Opinion, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2012
  • At its base lies a large circular meadow protected from wind—a hot-air balloonist’s paradise.
    — Bill Newcott, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Amateur pico balloonists - please, please delay launching your floating balloons for a while, maybe a month.
    — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The film, which cost $40 million to make, stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as 19th-century balloonists.
    — Jake Coyle, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Everything from wind conditions to equipment failure to thunderstorms had gotten in the way of prospective balloonists.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Poe developed a sensational story in which a famed balloonist navigated across the Atlantic in just three days.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Aeronauts will be an action-adventure film based on true events surrounding two 19th century hot air balloonists, according to Deadline.com, which first broke the news about the possible re-pairing.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The writers have taken great pains while inventing Jones’ character, Amelia Wren, an amalgam of real pioneering female balloonists, to give her a tragic backstory in line with the women who took to the skies at great risk of life and limb.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The series will delve into Aoki’s colorful life as a mogul and businessman, from founding Benihana to being an Olympic wrestler, professional speed boat racer, hot air balloonist, and nightclub impresario.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 8 June 2022
  • In 1912, a young meteorologist and champion balloonist named Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had once fit together but then drifted apart.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Amelia was actually inspired by several historical female aeronauts, most notably Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to find work as a professional balloonist when her balloonist husband, Jean-Pierre, died.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2019
  • In 1912, Alfred Wegener, a dashing German meteorologist and record-setting balloonist, concurred, and further suggested that the landmasses once composed a supercontinent, which broke into pieces that drifted apart.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021
  • All exist on history’s fringes, not forefathers or foremothers but frustrated artists, defeated revolutionaries, monks, nuns, eccentric balloonists and social deviants.
    — Julian Lucas, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Imagination Bethesda Bethesda Urban Partnership’s 23rd annual children’s street festival offers musical performances, professional children’s entertainers, arts-and-crafts activities, face painters, balloonists, a stilt walker, giveaways and more.
    — Carrie Donovan, Washington Post, 31 May 2017

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